In Spirituality or Adythma, the word Athma refers to existence (Astithva). Athma is not yourself.+

The word 'Self' is a misnomer. There is no proper word for Athma in English. Translators used the Self for Athma.

First, realize yourself is the ego and the real Self is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

In Spirituality or Adythma, the word Athma refers to existence (Astithva). Athma is not yourself.

You will always remain in a state of ignorance until you realize the Self is not you but the ‘Self’ is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Remember:~

Until you know What ‘Self is in actuality all your accumulated knowledge is garbage of ignorance.

If you hold the Self within you then you are holding the ego as the Self.

The Soul, the Self is not within you because it pervades everything and everywhere in the universe.

The Soul, the Self is hidden by the universe. When you finally realize the ‘‘Self’ ‘is not you but the ‘‘Self’’ is Soul then you will realize the world in which you exist is merely an illusion created out of the Soul. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness.

Sage Sankara: ~ “VC~ All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman (Consciousness) which is absolutely free from all the limitations of Maya.

Sage Sankara: ~ VC-63- Without knowing and examining the universe, one can’t know the Truth, as the idea that the external world exists, won't go. It can go only by an inquiry into the nature of the external world.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “What is accepted without a proper inquiry will not lead a person to the final goal. On the contrary, such acceptance will result only in evil, something which is detrimental to our spiritual progress.

Sage Sankara says:~ VC-47 - All the effects of ignorance, root, and branch, are burnt down by the fire of knowledge, which arises from discrimination between these two—the Self and the non-Self.

Until you think you are an individual separate from the world and the world existed prior to you and you are born in it afterward ignorance will prevail as a reality. Till ignorance is there the universe prevails as reality.

Sage Sankara says: ~ “The exercise in discrimination between real and unreal and renunciation of the false is real meditation, then why you are indulging in other types of meditation. :~Santthosh Kumaar